It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Love has more force than a besieging army.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.